Since the first OpenCoffee Club in London on the 1st March this year, Saul has been trying to get me to start one in Cape Town. Unfortunately I’ve spent so much time travelling and running around on both work and thankfully holiday missions over the past couple of months that the opportunity never materialised.
Fortunately Eric is a proactive chap and has organised Cape Town’s first OpenCoffee meeting for this Thursday.
The OpenCoffee club it seems was the brain child of Philip Wilkinson but is driven entirely by ex-Skype Marketing VP (and South African!), Saul Klein.
It began in London as an open forum for networking entrepreneur’s and investors in a way that reminds me of First Tuesday except with a far more open source or unconference vibe. I remember chatting to Nic about the first one which he attended and the feeling then was that it really had potential to grow into something great. Turns out he was right and thanks to Saul, after only 6 weeks it has already spread to over 25 events across the globe.
Good on Eric for making it happen in Cape Town, it’s a bummer that I won’t be there but I will certainly be at this week’s London event, as Lachlan said, it is only a 10 minute walk from the office.
For those interested, Saul has set up a Ning network here.
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Glad you're on the train now Rob :) Looking forward to OpenCoffee being a real success in CPT and JHB.
Posted by Saul Klein on 2007/04/16